The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-13
Twenty-Ssvsn Persons Drowned by the esp
sizing Of the Yacht Mystery.
Fully 0ns-Half Of the Victims Of the Catss-
trOphs Children.
Further Particulars of the Burning of the
AIcazar Theater at Hurley, Wis.,
Another Wrecked Steamer,
WOMEN AND CHILDREN DROWNED.
Appalling Disaster Near New York CITY
TwentY-seYep Lives Lost.

Appalllng DISASTER Near new York Ctty-
Twenty-seven Lives Lost.
New YORK, July 1.-THE sloop yacht
Mystery left Rutfle Bar, an island in Canar.
sic Bay, at o'clock last evening, loaded
almost to the gunwale with women and
children. When of Barren Island, en-
route for Canarsie, the yacht capsized and
only thirteen of the forty souls composing
her passengers and crew are known to
have been rescued. The party which was
invited in this terrible disaster was made
up chiefly of German families resident in
Brooklyn and Long Island City. The sun
was just sinking when the passengers of
the Mystery and Christina gathered on the
pier to embark for Canarsie. So many of
the men of the party showed the effects of
the beer they had drank that the shippers
thought cit best to put the women aud
children aboard the Mystery, which is a
cabin yacht, and rates as a much safer
boat than her consort."
The women protested, but their protest
was unheeded. The Mystery and fits pre-
clous load swung off from the Ruffie Bar
pier at o'clock. Captain Hendrickson
said, in the hearing of some of the women
who were rescued, that he was going to get
to Canarsie frat or blow a stick out. Mrs
Smither, OF Greenpoint, made most
earnest protest against more sail, as the
boat was already heeling away so that it
frightened the wemen almost into hyster-
les. Captain Hendrlckson declared that he
could sail the Mystery through gale and
persisted in his order for more sail. The
reef knots were unfastened and the boom
dropped Just as sQuall of considerable vio-
lence struck the sail. In second she was
on beam ends and all the people were
struggling in the choppy sea. The catas-
trophe was witnessed from the tug ]. @.
rrh 4ura ,rnf1 1ac
away. For five minutes the yacht re-
mained on her beam end and the shreuds
and bulwarks afforded some hold for the
eneulfed people. The struggle for a place
to hold on to was awful. Fully half OF
the drowning people were children,
The mothers made frantic sefforts to get
their little ones to where they could hold
on to something. One after another they
were swept off in the tidewsy, and, buoyed
by their clothing, their hands waved in
frantic and unavailing appeals for help.
Some time before the Dean got near enouah
to be of use, a negro put out from Barren
Island in rowboat and was the first to
aid the drowning people. Altogether seven
of the lives saved are to be credited solely
to his efforts. When the Dean arrived
there were few of the victims still above
the surface. As she neared woman was
seen floating, trying to buoy up her four
year-Old child. A man on the guards sud-
denly exclaimed. MY sGodl that is my
wife," and dived to her aid. He could save
hut one of them, and he ..chose his wife.
He and she were soon drawn aboard the
Dean, but the child sank before their eyes.
The next grappled was a woman of middle
age, who bad been kept on the surface by
her stoutness. She, however, was so ex.
heusted, that she died few minutes after
she was brought aboard the tug. A child
and another waman also died after they
were taken out, but the Deans willing
passengers and crew succeeded in rescuing
FIVE alive.
The best advices estimate the whole load
at thirty y-seven, and the number of those
saved is only ten. The following is list
of the lost up to the latest reports:
Michoel Schwind, the blind accordion
player, residence unknown; Mrs. Brandell,
Mrs. Louise 0bernier, of las Varet street.
Brooklyn, East Division; Frank G. Ober
nier, seven years old; Lizzie Obernier, five
years old; Charles 0bernler, two years old
Mrs. Weiss, of Bushwick; Mrs. Fargo, the
daughter of Mrs. Weiss; a child of Mrs.
| Fargo; Annie Beader, seventeen years OF
age, CT II Morrell street, Brooklyn; Philip
Lombarg; Freddy Lombarg, little girl OF
| the same family; George Kring, eight
years old, of Canarsie; Nicholas Scheidt
| of Dekalb avenue, near Bushwick avenue
| Capt. David Hendrickson, of Carnasle
| Harry Hendrickson, his nineteen-year-ol6
son; two young men, whose names are IN
| known to the survivors, supposed to be
James Burgess and Mark Stark, Mrs. Mey-
erberg, Mrs. A. r. Pohlwitz and three
| children; John Switzer's two children
Mrs. O'Brien (wife of the owner of the
| Mystery) and her three children, Mary
Brsndall, Mrs. Lowenberg, Charlie Bader
About o'clock this afternoon sloop!
! Homan and Veto arrived at Canarsie, hav
| ing in tow the unfortunate sloop Mystery
After bailiDg the water of her, eleven
bodies were found in the cabin and ldenti
| fed as follows: Frank and Lizzie Obernier
| Mrs. Margaret 0bernier and her two chill
dren, Phillip and henry Bambarg, Mary
Grimes and two children. Thirteen bodies
have so far been recovered.
| The following is q revised list of persons
| whose bodies have been recovered: Mrs
Mary Brandle, age AZ; Mrs. Mary Grimes
age 25 her SON Willie, age 81 years; hel
| daughter Katie, age months; Hen
~ and Philip Lombarg, brothers
aged 8 and z; Margaret, Willie
J and John O'BrieB, nine, five and three
| yacht; Frank, Lizzie and Charles Ober
mier, aged seven, five and two and one
half children of John Obermier; Mary
Schweetzer, aged three, all of Brooklyn
Those known or supposed to be on boart
and still missing are: Michael Schwind
the blind organist; Louis Obermier, Da
vid Hendrickson, captain of the yacht
Mystery, his son David, aget
nine; Annie Baeder, aged seven
teen; Geoege King, aged eight
Mrs. John 0'Brien, wife Of the owner o
the yacht: Mrs. Weiss, her daughter; Mrs
Fargo. aged 20; Nicholas Schmidt. Tota
supposed to be lost, %. Other estimate
place among ths missing a child OF Mn
| Fargo, two unknown men supposed to b
James Burgess and Mark Stark. Mrs. A
P. Pollwitz and child, and Mrs. Meyer
baugh.